She-Hulk #16 [Spoilers]

I always look forward to She-Hulk each month. I don't tend to overanalyze it, but I do enjoy it most of the time, and I enjoyed it this time as well. One would have to enjoy whatever one picked up after Civil War 7, and She-Hulk made an excellent palate cleanser--a blend of fighting and humor, and a potentially creepy surprise ending.

But I'm not going to talk about that right now. I'm going to talk about Jen's sex life. Just like the rest of the comic internet, half of whom are claiming that Jen is just something that sounds a little like Slott, plain and simple, and that's either really hot or really disgusting depending on who's writing, while the other half seem to think that her behavior is a way of acting out other issues because when a woman has sex with multiple partners it has to be a sign of something wrong with her self-image, and my guess is that's where the story is leading as well, especially taken in combination with last issue's whole thing with Doc Samson wanting to talk to her about just that.

This issue had her flirting with Wolverine, who wasn't interested and turned her down pretty rudely.

Last issue ended with her in bed with Clay Quartermain, presumably a one-night-stand kind of thing given the moves she was making on Wolverine this issue.

Other than that...well, when was the last time we saw any evidence of Jen in the sack? The last time would have been with John Jameson, or at least we can assume that they did it because they were married. Before that (and I'm not looking at my trades right now so I could easily be missing something) the last time I recall was at the beginning of the first trade, when she was bringing her model friend to stay over at Avengers Mansion. And that was, at least, an informal dating relationship if not a serious one--she didn't seem to be seeing anyone else during the time she was seeing him. There was some discussion regarding her behavior just prior to being tossed out of the mansion that seemed to indicate that she brought her boyfriends back to the mansion regularly; well, according to some book I can't locate at the minute--a Spider-Man, I think--so did Wolverine when he joined the group, and no one seems to be complaining about that. (BTW, Jen was asked to leave the mansion because of her misuse of team resources, basically throwing too many parties on the property. Nothing to do with invited overnight guests apart from the security issue.) In any case, once she took the job at Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzburg & Holliway, we really didn't see much evidence of a non-platonic social life at all until just very recently.

And while, as I said, I'm pretty sure that it's going to be used as a sign of something else wrong in her life, I really don't find it odd that a woman who has just had a serious relationship break up under rather weird circumstances would be instinctively trying to reclaim her sexuality, to regain an important part of her life that had been pretty much out of her own control for quite a while. Not saying that it's necessarily the healthiest way of dealing with that, just that it's not an unusual reaction. If the storyline says that her very recent behavior is indicative of something she needs therapy for, well, so be it. If it tries to claim that every non-monogamous sexual relationship she's ever had is a sign of that as well, that I'll have a problem with.